Show I CLOSES LONG LIFE LIFEr 4 I. I c I 1 I COLONEL JOHN C. C COOLIDGE Death Lays Hand u. On Col Co Coolidge Ending Struggle J m J Presidents President's ent s F Father ther Passes Away Quietly and With No Apparent Pain By RODNEY F Fo DUTCHER United Press Staff Correspondent PLYMOUTH Vt March larch 19 Plymouth little mountain town of ot Vermont mourned today the death of ot Its first citizen and patriarch patriarch- I Colonel John C. C Coolidge e father tather of ot the president nt of ot the United States Colonel Coolidge after a brave struggle gle which really had lasted all through th the winter died peacefully at 1041 p. p m. m yesterday His was no sudden death eath and there was no pain For days life lite had been ebbing I and nd finally it simply flickered out As he died his famous son was wasI I speeding northward through Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- on a special train trying to reach his fathers father's bedside In time for tor one more mor word with him hIm but but butin in vain Death came to the presidents president's father tather in the little farmhouse of I the Coolidge homestead where a aI afew afew few years ago he had administered I by the light of ot a a. flickering lamp lampI and on the family Bible of ot the I Continued on page 7 BATH EATH LAYS HAND HANDON ON N COL COOLIDGE WENDING ENDING STRUGGLE LE 1 Continued from page a 1 Midges the oath of office of nt of or the United States to toIson toson Ison son Calvin BULLETINS i I ell day yesterday esterday the friends and gb ors of Colonel Coolidge ool dge each bulletin from the iside side of their first citizen but buten en he death was announced ct dally all an of ot the twenty nine zens z zens ns who had kept vigil around general eral store had retired t as not until they began to toft toft tott ft tt nto to the q quaint post office- office re tl his morning stepping in for 11 lip or to the stove once favored Col Colonel nel Coolidge to warm hands T l feet t chilled by a sharp Yern Ver- Ver n nt vinter morning that the news became generally known the first to be told was wasn ri n John J. J Wilder Uncle ennd inland his wife Aunt Grace Ithe closest relatives of ot the in Plymouth Milder Vilder who is 79 years old was d f 7 a a a- younger man who had hadt t ome me into the store Clarence mchard fe trudged across street to his home where he heir par parted ed d the somber tidings of the ht o 0 Aunt GraceI Grace I ir sorry sorry he said simply I Ie e e was going but we ve all an him to stay with us until lv n came AS EXPECTED r This expressed the sentiment of e of ot Plymouth and the rounding snow piled farmhouses I Ith hl death of Colonel Coolidge I n expected for or several days daysI I 1 Whence benee Bence came as a poignant shock none o although many mourn his hisa a 3 Phe New England stock Which Plymouth from which C come is accustomed de th and considers It ft serenely tut he Toughly cla clad l folk who ne to the store here and who red the death of a beloved n jor 1 r respected acquaintance in il filar r gathering places at such lr as Plymouth Union L Ludlow and Bridget Bridge- Bridge t ter said much about the sterling dit es s of the elder Coolidge which if sa greater reater tribute than tears ver where he was praised for rugged Bugged i honesty the with which he had acted act ac- ac ted t del delicate cate position as the h her hereof of a president and the intel- intel and sound judgment he in advising his nd and and in administering the airs of Plymouth during a life Ufe in inIch Ich he had held virtually every Ii di office ottice In the township t tf as the opinion of ot the mat maIt ma- ma It t t seemed that the colonels colonel's th had been hastened by his It of painstakingly answering answering- longhand the longhand the sheaves of mail mall t i came ame me to him from strangers h b week eek his kindliness in ang an- an r ng g questions and shaking d with fth all aU who came They ailed his willingness to show I heirlooms or the room which Calvin Coolidge took the office as the president t of iU United States and the Bible on i ch h he son had placed his hand s s he morning wore on sleighs I snowmobiles drove up to the ter Iter ot of Plymouth Notch where nd he Coolidge home The peo- peo the pf laden countryside r re g gathering to discuss calmly the the night and the forth- forth lIng eing arrival of Plymouths Plymouth's son plans were uncertain pending explicit word from Pr President President sl- sl dent Coolidge wh who who was expected during the day from Woodstock where he will make his head head- quarters The services ser ho however hoer er will Ill Un- Un Undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- be held Saturday or Sunda Sunday in the small old meeting house of Plymouth directly opposite opposite po- po site the Coolidge hon homestead estead PLACE IN IN VAULT It is probable that the body bodt body of the colonel will be retained in a avault avault vault at Woodstock pending spring for there al' al are arfe four feet of snoW y on the ground in the country and it is almost that d deep p in the cemetery where Calvin Coolidge Jr and other members of the Coolidge fam are are burled and the ground ground Is is P zen fen for a great depth t ft The monument for the t t ual resting place of Colonel Colonel Go Co idge Sr is already In il pi place e It beal the name name- of the colonel and the y year ear of his birth birth he he aa a ew s of ot 81 Si when he died and died and vaa vas r se selected se- se selected and order ordered d erected in the family lot in the cemetery by bythe the colonel himself Newspaper 1 men were almost the only watchers watchers' when wor word of or the colonels colonel's death was brought by Deputy Deputy Dep Dep- Deputy uty Sheriff MacAuley who had been representative of the township in the watch atch kept at Colonel Coolidge's Coolidge's Cool Cool- idge's home ANNOUNCED DEATH MacAuley walked into the the- room where newspaper ne men en were wait waa- ing He is dead dead 1041 1041 he said The doctor t will tell teU you more later Dr Cram who had Issued through the evening constant bulletins all of which reported the colonels colonel's life slowly fading had little to say as ashe ashe ashe he quietly came from the Coolidge home horne He told Simply of the quiet I passing of the presidents president's father Then through the night Plymouth remained in qu quiet et John Coolidge a a colonel through service on the governors governor's staff and anda a a. tiller of the soil was famed in I his own mountains in his own right even before election of his son to the presidency Descended from Mary and John Coolidge who settled in m In Watertown Mass 1 in 1630 just 1630 just ten years after alter the landing of the first pilgrims Colonel Johns John's great-grandfather great moved into Vermont a a. century ago ago The Vermonters Vermonter's parents settled in Plymouth Notch 1 a a. remote village village vil vl- vil- vil lage which still remains just a a. crossroads Here tore John Coolidge grew to manhood and fought the battle of wresting a living from flom the hills John Coolidge was a storekeeper and a farmer and In his later years ears a II banker He sold In insurance urance and was a. a a notary public upon occasion NO PLAY TIME Colonel John was not a soft sort man He worked hard and there was no notIme notime notime time for tor play either for or for his family i He married twice His first wife Victoria J J. J Moor Coolidge mother of Calvin died at Plymouth when the bo boy was just 13 years old Ills His second wife died in 1919 a year ear too soon to know Calvin was to be elected vice president of the United States The Coolidge house is just across the road from the house In which Calvin Culvin Coolidge was born The presidents president's birthplace Is still the gener general l store it was wh when n he was born and the room in which he was born is used still by rUss Miss Florence Gilley the postmistress and proprietor proprietor pro pro- I of the s store |